SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, 16 September 2014 — Met this morning with reporters from Diario El Mundo newspaper and showed them my film, “The Gangs,” that I made last year in Guatemala. Both countries suffer from the presence of urban gangs, so the journalists here could relate to the piece. I’m here this week on […]
ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, 7 August 2014 — Digital cameras (in this case an iPhone) and the Internet now grant us the opportunity to express ourselves and to engage others as never before. For the first time in human history we can communicate instantly, globally and in a language, the visual language, that is understandable by all […]
ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, 7 August 2014 — At some point in my mid-20s I figured out that the field of communication could equip me with “a ticket and a tool.” A ticket in that I could travel beyond the region of my birth in southwest Pennsylvania, to other parts of the world. A tool in that […]
KIGALI, Rwanda, 26 July 2014 — I traveled really light on this trip to Rwanda, carrying only my iPhone and no other gear. No tripod. So it was nice to know how to make a fairly steady pan when I saw the opportunity. I visited a community project in the Rwandan capital, shooting my central […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 20 August 2014 — Learn to Raise Your Voice! with video at my Video Workshop in the nation’s capital on October 2-5. This four-day workshop is an intensive immersion in the craft of visual storytelling. Learn to tell powerful video stories. Raise Your Voice! about issues that are important to you. To register, […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 19 August 2014 — I received confirmation this morning that two of the images from my book of photographs, “Nicaragua,” will be used as the cover of Audible’s audio edition of “A Book of Common Prayer,” by Joan Didion. This is a great honor, with so much connective tissue. I never had the […]